Jonathan Swift ● He was born on 30 November 1667 at Dublin, Ireland ● Died on 19 October 1745, Ireland ● He was an Anglo Irish Satirist, Essayist and Political Pamphleter ( Whig) ● Writer of Augustan Age. ● Nick Name- Dean Swift ( became Dean of St.Patrick Cathedral) ● Pen Name- Issac Bickersraff, M.B.Drapier, Lamuel Gulliver, Simon Wagstaff ● Member of Scriblerrus Group ● His epitaph written by himself - “Here is laid the body of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Scared Theology”. Works of Swift - A TALE OF A TUB- ● 1st major work written by Swift. ● Published- 1704 ● It is a prose Parody, satire on religion ● ...
FRANCIS BACON ● Born on 22 Jan 1561 at York House, London ● Died on 9 April, 1626 ● Father's Name- Nicholas Bacon ● He belongs to Renaissance period, Jacobean age prose writer. ● Known as Father of English Essay ● Influenced by Michael De Montaigne ( French Writer) ● Montaigne- Father Of Essay ● Education- Trinity College Cambridge ( Without Degree) ● Associated with Gray's Inn ( To practice as a Barrister) ● At Cambridge he first met Queen Elizabeth ● “The Young Lord Keeper”. ● Pope- ‘The wisest, the brightest, the meanest of mankind”. ( Essay on man Epistle 4) ● ...